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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!news.cc.nctu.edu.tw!news.sinica!taob From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Date: 2 Jun 1995 08:00:26 GMT Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3qmgeq$9n2@gate.sinica.edu.tw> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: @140.109.40.249 Keywords: Linux FreeBSD In article <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: > >I set aside a 300MB partition, >and started to install FreeBSD. >Unfortunately, I wasn't sure exactly what was happening; >and so, not wanting to lose my Linux partitions, >I abandoned the effort. FreeBSD uses the concept of "disk slices", which may represent a collection of BSD filesystems. Last I checked, Linux filesystems are analagous to MS-DOS partitions. For example, on one of my systems, I have two partitions: one MS-DOS and one BSD. This BSD "partition" (or "slice") is then subdivided into your usual UNIX filesystems (I use /, /usr, /usr/local, etc.) FreeBSD is contained within its own slice, so it won't "damage" other existing partitions. You can import a DOS partition, of course, but that's a different story. >From my experience I would have to say >that FreeBSD is not presently in a state >where it could reasonably be recommended to a non-guru -- >as Linux can, in my view. You ain't seen the new installer in 2.0.5A. Light years ahead of the old 2.0R installer. Even a die-hard Mac user would understand it (well, once they figure out they have to use the arrow keys instead of the mouse). ;-) >May I suggest that something like the Linux guides (in LaTeX) >and the Linux HOWTO documents >is urgently needed by, and for, FreeBSD ? Sure, we know that. What we need are people to actually step forward and take on the project, not just making suggestions. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org